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Westrail ADP/ADQ class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Commonwealth Engineering· from 1987· class of rail rolling stock
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Australind Claisebrook-Apr02: Nachoman-au· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Transwa Australind passing through Yarloop, October 2020 07 (cropped): Calistemon· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Westrail ADP/ADQ class is a retired class of railcars built by Comeng, Bassendean for Westrail in 1987 to operate the Australind service between Perth and Bunbury. Operation and ownership of the fleet was transferred to Transwa when Westrail was superseded by Transwa in 2003.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 39 years ago, in 1987.
- 373 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 42.3 m long: about 9 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 36 years (1987–2023).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1987
- in service from
- 1987
- retired
- 2023
- status
- retired
- number built
- 5
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Commonwealth Engineering
- operators
- Western Australian Government Railways, Transwa, Western Australian Government Railways Commission, Westrail
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 373 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- formation
- ADP–ADP, ADP–ADQ–ADP, ADP–ADQ–ADQ–ADP
- length
- 42.3 m
- weight
- 48.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927540, Wikipedia: Westrail ADP/ADQ class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.